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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17308181
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posted: Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.
The new recipe for caramel colouring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) - a chemical which California has added to its list of carcinogens. The change to the recipe has already been introduced in California but will be rolled out across the US.
Coca-Cola says there is no health risk to justify the change.
But what about the taste, man?!?!
Ah, nm they both suck anyhow.
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AzureTyger
Title: Awesome
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Registered: 2002-4-1 15:49:04
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Date Posted:
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The FDA says that a human would have to consume over 1,000 cans of Coke in a day to receive the dose of the carcinogenic chemical that lab rats received
It seems like regulators might be overreaching on this. I know the anti soda lobby in CA is pretty big though.
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Cawlin
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Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Eager_Igraine posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17308181
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posted: Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.
The new recipe for caramel colouring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) - a chemical which California has added to its list of carcinogens. The change to the recipe has already been introduced in California but will be rolled out across the US.
Coca-Cola says there is no health risk to justify the change.
But what about the taste, man?!?!
Ah, nm they both suck anyhow.
@ the article: LOLSLANTMUCH?
article posted:
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.
Translation: companies are removing carcinogens from their product, but we think they should still have to label it as a carcinogen even though the FDA says people would have to drink thirty times their weight in coke per day to get an exposure to the chemical that might constitute a risk.
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Date Posted:
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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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What slant do you see there Cawlin?
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reesescups
Title: //Captain America
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Registered: 2003-5-26 14:45:53
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Pretty sure everything in California causes cancer...
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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
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Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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Date Posted:
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AzureTyger posted:
Article posted:
The FDA says that a human would have to consume over 1,000 cans of Coke in a day to receive the dose of the carcinogenic chemical that lab rats received
It seems like regulators might be overreaching on this.
Regulators over-reacting? In California!?
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DemonicXH
Title: Camelot Vault Staff
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Registered: 2003-12-1 08:14:17
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Date Posted:
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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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reesescups posted:
Pretty sure everything in California causes cancer...
No joke, there are signs everywhere stating that something somewhere is known to cause cancer.
I moved to Cali 7 months ago and it made me laugh the amount of signs everywhere saying I was going to die from cancer.
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imaloon1
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Registered: 2003-9-15 07:19:53
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Date Posted:
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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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Wow they go after the coloring and not aspartame?
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theredkay1
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Registered: 2008-5-16 10:37:09
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Date Posted:
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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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AzureTyger posted:
Article posted:
The FDA says that a human would have to consume over 1,000 cans of Coke in a day to receive the dose of the carcinogenic chemical that lab rats received
It seems like regulators might be overreaching on this. I know the anti soda lobby in CA is pretty big though.
Reading that passage it doesnt really give us any valuable information. It just says that some rats received a dose equivalent to 1,000 cans of coke a day.
It leaves the impression that 1,000 cans a day is the 'not safe' level, but it doesnt actually say that. I imagine that this was lifted straight from Coke's press release and the FDA did not make this statement.
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Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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Date Posted:
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Coke and Pepsi alter recipe to avoid cancer warning
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imaloon1 posted:
Wow they go after the coloring and not aspartame?
Aspartame is generally regarded as safe.
And if you don't like it you can drink Coke Zero and Pepsi Max instead of Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. 
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